Did you ever dream that you were a dog agility super champ except then it switched and you were at some germy, grungy, derelict seaside park in the dark and the carnies were actually drug addled zombies that were shambling after you with hammers and their big teeth? And then as you're trying to escape your way out from under their oily, horrible claws by clambering up a rat infested palm tree, you're all, this is about dog agility like, how?

06 April 2010

That stuff, back there, would be the agility stuff.

OMG. Team Small Dog got to practice. This is not a tall tail. God Bless America! No one was lame. No one freaked out and ran away into the forest. No one flung their body through any jumps. No one leaped off yellow paint. Then I ripped out the caulking in my shower with a sharp thing and no one can take showers at my house. Can I just say it again? God Bless America!

I will have to go back and look for that. I have some unread CleanRuns sitting in the computer. I ran the whole course one time each with everyone, so I will have to see whose way I ran! I ran it a little different with all 3 dogs. We found 2 very nice little drill sequences in there, one with hard pole entries which was the focus of our practicing Monday because of someone who is still working on collecting himself into hard pole entries instead of high speed blasting into any old random pole. And another nice dogwalk sequence for someone that sometimes likes to self release himself off dogwalk if I decide to run fast towards a tunnel!

Yeah, there were several good weave-pole-entry-practice sequences. After running a course a couple of times, I get bored very quickly with it and make up interesting sequences to do instead. That course had a lot of them. That's one of my criteria for picking the courses I set up each week.....

Hey, for weave pole entries, try using two sets of my 2x2 weave poles (four poles total) and place them in front of whatever obstacle you want at whatever angle you want to practice. They are easy to move to make progressively harder entries and "someone" won't get too tired with multiply reps cuz he's only doing four poles. Great for sharpening up those tough entries.

Laura Hartwick, Captain

Many people around Santa Cruz know Laura as the lady with all those little black dogs. Many people know her as a horse trainer. Many people know her as the artist with the small brushes. Many people know her as that hoity graphic designer.
None of them would be wrong.
All the dogs of Team Small Dog, righteously awesome.
Laura Hartwick is usually a nice person. Except when she isn't. Be nice, don't bite, and run faster.